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by barbudorojo 4181 days ago
What I don't like about Nim is that there is not a repl. In Lisp and Clojure you don't need to compile things.

Could someone give a brief comparison between Clojure and Nim? Let's suppose that we implement Clojure in Nim is this a crazy idea?, What about implementing Shen in Nim?. Many people complain because sbcl is not easy to use with C++ libraries, could an implementation in Nim amilliorate those problems?. Many more questions arise but those mentioned are enough.
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def- 4181 days ago
Well, there is a REPL, but it's not that great:

    $ nim i
    >>> for i in 0..10:
    ...   echo "Hello World"[0..i]
    ...
    H
    He
    Hel
    Hell
    Hello
    Hello 
    Hello W
    Hello Wo
    Hello Wor
    Hello Worl
    Hello World
To use up/down keys, build the Nim compiler with "./koch boot -d:release -d:useGnuReadline" or run "rlwrap nim i" instead.

Edit: It's even buggier than I remembered, best avoid it and use "nim -r c file" instead.

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hugs 4180 days ago
What bugs or things-that-are-not-great have you run into with Nim's REPL?
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barbudorojo 4180 days ago
It seems that you can't use any libraries. After using import it doesn't work anymore.
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grayrest 4181 days ago
The closest thing to what you're asking about is Pixie [1], which is a Clojure-like language implemented in Pypy's RPython.

[1] https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie

It'd be possible to implement a Clojure in Nim, you'd just have to port the datastructures and enough primitives to bootstrap the language core (see core.clj, Clojurescript's core.clj, Pixie's stdlib.pxi).

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